Articles By Michael Kirke

What if we could turn the clock back by 500 years?

Michael Kirke

July 19, 2021

Not everyone is hoisting a white flag before the madness of wokedom

Michael Kirke

July 14, 2021

‘Every day was a nightmare’: two horror stories about Facebook wrapped in one

Michael Kirke

May 14, 2021

The clock of history is five minutes to 'Darkness at Noon'

Michael Kirke

May 06, 2021

Does democracy need Christianity?

Michael Kirke

April 16, 2021

The battle between church and state began in the Middle Ages

Michael Kirke

April 06, 2021

Words, words, words and the good life

Michael Kirke

February 02, 2021

To survive turbulent times, we need to arm ourselves with truth

Michael Kirke

November 30, 2020

Dispatches from the Great Awokening

Michael Kirke

September 09, 2020

Can societies abandon religion and continue to prosper?

Michael Kirke

August 31, 2020

Faith and the novel in a secular age

Michael Kirke

August 19, 2020

The heroic legacy of John Hume

Michael Kirke

August 11, 2020

In search of new Augustines for the 21st Century

Michael Kirke

February 27, 2019

'Rise and Grind': on the pathology of work

Michael Kirke

February 02, 2019

What really happened between some Catholic schoolboys and a Native American elder?

Michael Kirke

January 23, 2019

Terrence Malick and the Passion of Franz Jägerstätter

Michael Kirke

October 30, 2018

Is this what the denial of unconditional love for both really means?

Michael Kirke

June 01, 2018

Ireland goes the way of the world - for now

Michael Kirke

May 28, 2018

Ireland votes on the right to life on Friday

Michael Kirke

May 23, 2018

Why Machiavelli could feel at home in Silicon Valley

Michael Kirke

April 13, 2018

Sins and sophistries in the history of the Crusades

Michael Kirke

February 14, 2018

Stranger Things: a dystopia with friendship and hope

Michael Kirke

November 21, 2017

In Ireland, David and Goliath meet again

Michael Kirke

October 05, 2017

Back to the future… or the end of the road?

Michael Kirke

August 17, 2017

Is being a Christian a sackable offence in UK politics now?

Michael Kirke

June 16, 2017

'The Benedict Option' -- terrific for monks, but not for ordinary Christians

Michael Kirke

April 03, 2017

Real news and a fake scandal

Michael Kirke

January 18, 2017

Hollywood dramatizes a harrowing Japanese novel about persecuted Christians

Michael Kirke

January 10, 2017

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Michael Kirke

April 08, 2016

Laurus: the history of a man's soul

Michael Kirke

March 18, 2016

The evil that men do

Michael Kirke

February 04, 2016

In ten to thirty years, the survivors will speak out

Michael Kirke

July 30, 2015

Please do not kill this Mockingbird

Michael Kirke

July 20, 2015

Two gay campaigners against same-sex marriage in Ireland

Michael Kirke

May 18, 2015

Ireland: Will the Noes have it?

Michael Kirke

May 15, 2015

Overcooking the 'equality' cake?

Michael Kirke

May 11, 2015

Doing justice to Ian Paisley

Michael Kirke

September 18, 2014

Marry and submit to him. What?

Michael Kirke

March 28, 2014

Stumbling forward into the past

Michael Kirke

March 25, 2014

Why Christian ideals are the foundation of a secular society

Michael Kirke

March 04, 2014

Through the underworld to transcendence

Michael Kirke

February 07, 2014

Manifesto for a new Ireland: start with conscience rights

Michael Kirke

July 16, 2013

What is really going on?

Michael Kirke

February 12, 2013

Mother of Parliaments divorces an institution it has been wedded to for almost one thousand years

Michael Kirke

February 06, 2013

Last ditch attempt to protect freedom of speech and conscience?

Michael Kirke

January 29, 2013

Stormy weather on the horizon?

Michael Kirke

January 24, 2013

Google in the dock?

Michael Kirke

January 23, 2013

Another fine mess...?

Michael Kirke

January 16, 2013

Will the barricades be rising again?

Michael Kirke

January 09, 2013

A bad case of double think and double standards

Michael Kirke

January 02, 2013

"Threadbare idea of equality" behind redefinition of marriage

Michael Kirke

December 17, 2012

Parliamentary process "scorned in the rush to redefine marriage"

Michael Kirke

December 14, 2012

British Government plans to introduce gay “marriage” bill next week

Michael Kirke

December 12, 2012

Shoot first, aim later

Michael Kirke

December 04, 2012

Ireland's abortion furore

Michael Kirke

November 19, 2012

The looming dictatorship of the "egalitarians"

Michael Kirke

November 19, 2012

Marriage on the rocks

Michael Kirke

November 13, 2012

Devaluing the currency

Michael Kirke

November 11, 2012

Approaching the last taboo

Michael Kirke

October 09, 2012

Love, Sex and Marriage in the Tower of Babel

Michael Kirke

October 03, 2012

All men are equal, but...

Michael Kirke

September 24, 2012

Don't say you weren't promised this

Michael Kirke

September 23, 2012

Relentless march by French towards new definition of marriage

Michael Kirke

September 15, 2012

Let your 'yes' be yes and your 'no' be no - some hope!

Michael Kirke

September 12, 2012

The real agenda - a war on children?

Michael Kirke

September 10, 2012

Bad news day for witch-hunters as Regnerus is vindicated

Michael Kirke

August 30, 2012

Just imagine the jackboot on the other foot

Michael Kirke

August 17, 2012

Remember Florida 2000

Michael Kirke

August 15, 2012

A campaign becoming more crazy and intolerant by the day

Michael Kirke

August 11, 2012

More politically correct than electorally smart?

Michael Kirke

July 31, 2012

The judicial murder of a promising and honest academic’s reputation

Michael Kirke

July 27, 2012

European democratic deficit again?

Michael Kirke

July 25, 2012

One step forward and two steps backwards for Elton John

Michael Kirke

July 21, 2012

A battle for Irish minds and hearts

Michael Kirke

July 14, 2012

Runaway train in Hollywood

Michael Kirke

July 13, 2012

Irish Government Minister's pledge to gays - but will people follow?

Michael Kirke

July 02, 2012

Another gauntlet thrown down before the British government on marriage issue

Michael Kirke

June 12, 2012

The problem with polls

Michael Kirke

May 31, 2012

Cracks deepen in British Conservative Party over marriage issue

Michael Kirke

May 25, 2012

Sentamu presents Cameron government with a case to answer

Michael Kirke

May 19, 2012

A tale of two evolutions

Michael Kirke

May 13, 2012

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly

Michael Kirke

May 12, 2012

Where will it all end?

Michael Kirke

May 11, 2012

Will common sense pip sentimentality at the post in the marriage stakes?

Michael Kirke

May 11, 2012

Are Obama and Cameron playing with electoral fire?

Michael Kirke

May 10, 2012

Biden puts the writing on the wall

Michael Kirke

May 09, 2012

"Anyone who hates gay people is a moral criminal"

Michael Kirke

May 07, 2012

Amendment One campaign get major boost from Rev. Billy Graham

Michael Kirke

May 03, 2012

Call for a united front across faiths to defend marriage

Michael Kirke

April 28, 2012

Confusing the issue with smoke screens

Michael Kirke

April 25, 2012

At risk: the right of a child to both a mother and a father

Michael Kirke

April 23, 2012

Liberal British paper criticizes Government's marriage redefinition plan

Michael Kirke

April 20, 2012

Mushy and meaningless redefinition of "marriage" benefits no one

Michael Kirke

April 08, 2012

Martin Sheen, conscience and common sense

Michael Kirke

April 04, 2012

Russia may outlaw gay propaganda aimed at children

Michael Kirke

April 01, 2012

Sarkozy playing for both sides?

Michael Kirke

March 29, 2012

More successful European resistance to same-sex marriage campaign

Michael Kirke

March 27, 2012

Snapshot of the US battlefield, coast to coast

Michael Kirke

March 24, 2012

European states not required to grant marriage rights to gays

Michael Kirke

March 22, 2012

Hitchens gunning for Cameron on the marriage issue

Michael Kirke

March 19, 2012

A "sham" consultation

Michael Kirke

March 17, 2012

The decline has peaked

Michael Kirke

March 13, 2012

Deep inconsistencies of Britain's proposed new marriage laws

Michael Kirke

March 13, 2012

The Millers' Tale

Michael Kirke

March 11, 2012

Closer and closer to chaos

Michael Kirke

March 08, 2012

The 'strategic patience' approach to victory on the marriage battlefront

Michael Kirke

March 07, 2012

Scottish Cardinal calls on British Government to abandon gay marriage plan

Michael Kirke

March 04, 2012

Talking sense about gay marriage

Michael Kirke

March 04, 2012

Cameron's gay marriage proposal is "completely nuts" says Tory MP

Michael Kirke

March 02, 2012

Archbishop Williams: "law has no right to legalise same-sex marriage"

Michael Kirke

February 29, 2012

Marriage, a mere rite of passage?

Michael Kirke

February 27, 2012

Let's have a reality check about the non-existence of slippery slopes

Michael Kirke

February 22, 2012

Redeeming the dreary

Michael Kirke

October 25, 2011

Upstanding or grandstanding?

Michael Kirke

September 06, 2011

Ireland's torment continues

Michael Kirke

July 27, 2011

Friends at long last

Michael Kirke

June 01, 2011

Does teaching need to be this hard?

Michael Kirke

April 19, 2011

Nothing could be better

Michael Kirke

April 01, 2011

Christianity is so yesterday, says UK high court

Michael Kirke

March 02, 2011

History lessons from Hollywood

Michael Kirke

February 22, 2011

Time for the good news on poverty

Michael Kirke

February 01, 2011

Ireland's human rights baby

Michael Kirke

December 18, 2010

Revisionist history, for the sake of humanity

Michael Kirke

December 10, 2010

Ireland: from the bottom, everything is up

Michael Kirke

November 23, 2010

The bitter fruit of a myth

Michael Kirke

August 30, 2010

The bewitching ways of wickedness

Michael Kirke

August 26, 2010

The end of cocoon culture

Michael Kirke

August 17, 2010

The intellectual catwalk

Michael Kirke

May 12, 2008

A miraculous decade of peace in Belfast

Michael Kirke

April 12, 2008

Misery loves company -- and book companies love misery

Michael Kirke

April 10, 2008

A miraculous decade of peace in Belfast

Michael Kirke

April 04, 2008

New dawn for Ireland

Michael Kirke

April 11, 2007

The mystery of Ireland's youth suicides

Michael Kirke

September 09, 2005

How to fix binge drinkers - give them more booze

Michael Kirke

August 19, 2005

Can the IRA break with its past?

Michael Kirke

August 03, 2005